HOUSE AND GARDEN 
252 
October, 1912 
Bay State 
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Coating 
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construction against damage by 
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building any tint desired, may be 
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concrete houses, in mill, bridge or 
sewer construction. Send at once 
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It was used here. 
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Paint and Varnish Makers and 
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r— FALL PLANTING— 
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wjMwwMim Wizard drand is sold by jirst.-class seedsmen \ 
ten feet in front and about that far apart 
set the flowering peach, red and white 
alternating. (The same cultural direc¬ 
tions apply to all trees and shrubs, the 
only difference being you can take chances 
with deciduous plants that it is not well 
to take with evergreens.) About eight 
feet in front and as far apart set out white 
and purple lilacs alternating. About six 
feet in front of them and the same dis¬ 
tance apart plant red cvdonia, yellow for- 
sythia, and white spirea alternating. For 
a low evergreen border, use dwarf box, 
then as a final touch plant a row of vio¬ 
lets and you have not only shut out the 
ugly view, you have replaced it with one 
of such surpassing beauty that for the re¬ 
mainder of your life, the new year will 
begin, not on the first day of January, hut 
on the day that this variety of color and 
perfume gladdens your sight. These 
hedge rows naturally will leave a great 
deal of vacant space. Fill in with yuccas, 
or if you prefer, flowers, with daffodils, 
poets' narcissus, Roman hyacinth, snow¬ 
drops, purple flag and Spanish iris. 
Plant them haphazard and not too close 
together and they will multiply and he as 
permanent as the shrubbery. 
Should this hedge require too much 
space, use the evergreen background, and 
in front plant a row of dogwood (those 
"white tents of spring"), setting out ten 
feet apart. And dogwoods can he trans¬ 
planted from the forest. People tell you 
that they are the most difficult of all wild 
woods things to move successfully, hut T 
have not found them so. Once, in a mo¬ 
ment of exceeding recklessness, I trans¬ 
planted a dogwood, twelve feet in height 
and in full bloom, and it lived. I never 
have understood why it didn't die. hut it 
didn't. However, I've never tried that 
experiment again. The last of October, 
or the first of November, is, in this cli¬ 
mate (North Carolina), the best time to 
plant trees and shrubs. The winter rains 
give the roots a good start, and the plant 
is well established before leaf growth 
begins. 
In selecting dogwoods get bushy ones 
about six feet in height, and he very care¬ 
ful not to injure the roots. It is almost 
impossible to convince a man that the 
root is an important part of a tree. To 
him, trunk and limbs are all that matter; 
so superintend the job yourself. As soon 
as dug. cover up roots so sun and wind 
will not dry them, and plant as soon as 
possible. It is better to have all holes 
made ready one day then next morning 
dig up plants and set out that afternoon. 
Don't keep them out of the earth any 
longer than necessary, and if well supplied 
in the matter of roots every one will live. 
Trim all shrubbery when first planted 
to make it branch, but do have enough re¬ 
spect for the eternal fitness of things after 
the first trimming to let your hedge 
severely alone, to grow according to its 
own sweet will. If your mind is set on a 
formal hedge, use privet or box or some¬ 
thing like that. It would be monstrous to 
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